Earthquake prediction and mitigation of earthquake losses : proceedings of the UNDRO/USSR/UNESCO/UNDP training seminar Vol. 1.

Training Seminar held 8-14 October 1986

UNDRO concepts and programme in earthquake prevention and preparedness -- Geological aspects of earthquake hazard -- Principles and problems of assessment of seismic hazard -- The assessment of seismic risk -- Mitigation of earthquake hazard -- Seismic zoning methods on the USSR -- Some seismic microzoning aspects of protection against earthquakes - Yugoslav experience -- Planning and management for earthquake disaster mitigation in urban areas -- Building codes for earthquake resistant design in the USSR and abroad -- Design and construction of earthquake resistant structures, building codes -- Strengthening and reconstruction of buildings and structures -- Imitation of earthquake excitation as a means of testing buildings and structures for earthquake resistence -- Detailed hazard assessment for critical structures -- Hazards due to earthquakes in the southern Balkan region: seismic hazard and tsunasmi hazard -- Earthquake prediction in a living earth -- UNESCO programme related to earthquake prediction and mitigation -- Earthquake generation and prediction -- Physics of the earthquake source: modelling studies -- Multidisciplinary approach to earthquake prediction -- Earthquake prediction research programme in the USSR -- Progress in earthquake prediction research in China -- National programme for earthquake prediction in Japan -- Earthquake prediction research activities in Turkey -- Long and short-term earthquake prediction in the Aegean and surrounding area by seismicity patterns -- State of the art and perspectives of seismological research in Cuba